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I wasted 20 years at startups chasing stock options. Pre-IPO stock options are stupid. Don't waste your time.

I sometimes fear that, like bookstores and Toys R' Us, if you don't patronize these businesses, they will go away. As a kid I couldn't imagine a world without bookstores, now there aren't any. Same with Toys R' Us. Kids will never have that experience again. Yes, movies are expensive, but would you rather them not be there at all?

A pretty amazing collection of games was at friv.com

To me, JavaScript is like the past, or a warped vision of the distant future. The interfaces people created had visual appeal, but that’s all they had. It lacked all of the usability that I was used to finding on webpages, and therefore made for a very frustrating experience. No bookmarking, no back and forward, no right clicking to open a new tab, frequent superfluous sound, major security holes, long loading times. I would hardly call any of this elegant. As a user, I was thrilled when people stopped using JavaScript.

In my experience, Extreme sleep deprivation defeated any wisdom and perspective that I might have otherwise had.

>> Proposing to my girlfriend of 7 years next month.

Advice from an older person here - don't wait until you are 30+ to start trying, if you want to have kids. You will all benefit from having more health and energy when under 30.

>> Mine Bitcoin

God, yes, this. I could have been a millionaire by clicking on an .exe that I had downloaded into my Downloads folder.

When I was 25, I moved from the DC area to San Francisco, South of Market. It was 1999. I had some money saved up and was living with a friend. I would go to Internet cafes and work on my resume and apply for jobs during the morning, and then I would spend a lot of time just wandering around and exploring the city randomly. It was amazing.

Advice I would give myself: Buy some kind of real estate. No, $300k is not too much money for a house. And your crazy plan about living in an RV in the city during the week, but buying a house in Tahoe and visiting it on the weekends - that's a good plan, do that.

Certain types of elites will fight against education for this very reason. It erodes their control.

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Every professional driver does that, at some point.

I thought this article was going to be about AltaVista, The Mining Company, Lycos, Dogpile, etc. and of course Yahoo!'s human-curated indices.